All is prepared

Secret chutney?

For the three and a half minutes that you need, the area is empty. You help yourself to a rather fetching set of matched rostygold cutlery.

On your way out you see a box nestled behind the preserves in the pantry. Actually, more a chest than a box. It looks very solid, and locked more securely than a chutney - even a really good chutney - would warrant. Your pockets are bulging with spoons, so you resolve to return for this intriguing morsel on another night. [Continue to unlock this storyline further!]

Gain: 100 x RostygoldVillainy: Area-diving has increased to 2! You've lost a Quality: Casing…although it doesn't say so

Flex your fingers.

A scandalous collection.

You are in and out like the shadow of a cat. The box is heavy, but manageable. You heave it into the street and away to your lodgings.

The locks take considerable ingenuity to defeat. Delicate manipulation and the occasional hammer blow sorts them out. Now, what's in there?

Not the sort of thing one should find in a respectable pantry, certainly. There are a number of racy daguerreotypes. A pair of entirely indecent zoetropes. Some curious wooden objects. Well, it's an interesting find. It does raise the question of what to do with it all.

Villainy: Area-diving has increased to 3! You've lost a Quality: Casing…although it doesn't say so

Blackmail her.

Boxes and pearls

An anonymous note. A threat of exposure to the Unexpurgated London Gazette. A panicked response from your victim. A gratifying absence of Constables, consulting detectives and other undesirables. A tense exchange on a bridge in Tyrant's Gardens.

It all proceeds as smoothly as you could hope for. The lady in question has her box back, and you are better off to the tune of a lovely pearl necklace. The local villains applaud your acumen.

Gain: 300 x Moon-pearlConnected: Criminals increase You've lost a Quality: Villainy: Area-divingalthough it doesn't say so You've lost a Quality: Casing…although it doesn't say so